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Saiga Vs. Any AK47
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<blockquote data-quote="Dr_Mitch" data-source="post: 1764397" data-attributes="member: 7417"><p>All the parts are very similar, but not the same. Almost everything in a Saiga 12 is larger than on an AK, because it's handling a much larger cartridge. The sights are completely different though. Saiga sights are on either end of the piston tube, and they are small and crappy, with the front sight generally shaped very poorly. But they are zeroed, and the guns will pattern to POA. The receiver hole patterns are different also, since a lot of the receivers are pre-perforated for modification to a pistol-grip, which minimizes the amount of work needed to convert one.</p><p></p><p>They are also less reliable from factory, since the factory has oftentimes not cleared the gas ports in the barrel, and sometimes not drilled all three of them. When this happens there isn't enough gas delivered to run the action every time, and you get ejection and extraction issues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr_Mitch, post: 1764397, member: 7417"] All the parts are very similar, but not the same. Almost everything in a Saiga 12 is larger than on an AK, because it's handling a much larger cartridge. The sights are completely different though. Saiga sights are on either end of the piston tube, and they are small and crappy, with the front sight generally shaped very poorly. But they are zeroed, and the guns will pattern to POA. The receiver hole patterns are different also, since a lot of the receivers are pre-perforated for modification to a pistol-grip, which minimizes the amount of work needed to convert one. They are also less reliable from factory, since the factory has oftentimes not cleared the gas ports in the barrel, and sometimes not drilled all three of them. When this happens there isn't enough gas delivered to run the action every time, and you get ejection and extraction issues. [/QUOTE]
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